Rules and Settings

Tournament races will use the same settings as the Accessible weekly races, which are as follows:

All Medallions

Fast Ganon (0 Trials, No Boss Key, No Tower Collapse)

Big Poe Reward requires 1 Big Poe

Mask of Truth reward is turned off

Gossip Stone hints require the Stone of Agony

Maps and Compasses: Off

Bombchus in logic: Off

Lens of Truth: Required everywhere

Settings are also pinned in the “Training Ground” and “Weekly Races” channels of the OoTR Discord: https://discord.gg/5vF2zBJ
Emulators are allowed. However, if you use an emulator, you need to enable frame and input display if available, otherwise you must capture the entire emulator window.

Qualifiers

There will be NO sign-up necessary to enter qualifiers.

The current Accessible weekly races (7:00 PM EST/EDT | 11:00 PM UTC) will act as the qualifiers for the bracket portion of the tournament. If you’d like to participate in the tournament, simply enter the weekly races!
The weekly races are hosted on SpeedRunsLive - if you want to join, use the SRL IRC Client. Alternatively you can sign up via the LiveSplit client. An SRL account is needed to participate in the races, streaming is required.

The first qualifying race will take place during the weekly race on August 25, and every following weekly race will act as a qualifier.
If you do not wish to enter the tournament, you can still freely participate in the all of the weekly races.

The qualifying stage will act as follows:

There will be 8 total races, players can participate in as many as they want

There is no minimum amount of races that a player must enter to qualify

Only your top 4 highest scores will count toward your final point value

Any additional point values from extra races will be removed

Players will gain points based on their performance and the amount of players within the race, using the following formula:

Tournament Stage

At the end of the 8 qualifier races, the top 16 players based on point values will qualify for the tournament stage. In the case of a tie, the player with the highest individual point value from any race will win the tiebreaker. If it is still tied, the second highest race will be considered, and so on.

Players will face off in 1v1 races

Players will be seeded based on rank (ex: 1v16, 2v15, 3v14…)

Double elimination bracket

If you do not wish to participate in the tournament stage for any reason, please inform a mod on the OoTR Discord as early as possible to prevent seeding you into the bracket. It will be assumed that every player would like to participate in the tournament stage until the player says otherwise.

Weekly races will continue as normal when the tournament is taking place, but there will be even more races to look forward to on the ZeldaSpeedRuns channel during the tournament stage.